Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Hardbound
1991 · New York
by Stampfle, Felice
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991. Hardbound. VG (Spine of dj may be faded in color; otherwise quite clean.). Maroon coth with gilt lettering; sky blue dj with duotone illustration and black lettering; 640 pp. with 347 bw plates and 154 bw figures, plus 68 bw line drawings; weighs 7.25 lbs. This massive tome is part one of the catalogue, with over 340 works from the collection's more than 800 Netherlandish drawings. The book contains the catalogue of full descriptions, the plates, the comparative illustrations, references cited, an indeces of artists and former owners, a concordance, and line drawings of watermarks. An extremely thorough and informative study of the subject with excellent reproductions of the images. (Inventory #: 113538)